Books on Religious Trauma written by White authors:

• Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein

• Taking Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich & Madeleine Tobias

• When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion by Laura E. Anderson

Books on Religious Trauma written by BIPOC authors:

• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

• Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing from Spiritual Trauma by Teresa B. Pasquale

• Religious Experience in Trauma: Koreans' Collective Complex of Inferiority and the Korean Protestant Church by Kwangyu Lee

Books on Religious Trauma written by Queer authors:

• Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith by Mihee Kim-Kort

• Yes, Daddy by Jonathan Parks-Ramage (fictional novel; TW: rape, violent sex)

Books on Religious Trauma outside of Christianity:

• Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deobrah Feldman

• When Mormons Doubt: A Way to Save Relationships and Seek a Quality Life by Jon Ogden

• Here and There: Leaving Hasidism, Keeping My Family by Chaya Deitsch

• Leaving Buddha: A Tibetan Monk’s Encounter with the Living God by by Tenzin Lahkpa & Eugene Bach

Books on Religious Trauma and Sexual Healing:

• Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms by Matthias Roberts

• Sex, God, and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy by Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers

• Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad about Feeling Good (about Sex) by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Books on Religious Trauma and pursuing non-religion afterwards:

• Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion by Phil Zuckerman

• Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism by Philip Kitcher

Books on Trauma (thank you to this post from @AccountabilityMapping on IG for many of these recommendations)

Content Warning for many: trauma, racism, rape, and war

• Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman

• Complex PTSD: From Suriving to Thriving by Pete Walker

• What My Bones Knew by Stephanie Foo

• It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn

• The Body Remembers by Babette Rothschild

• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

• Decolonizing Trauma Work by Renee Linklater

• My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

• The Deepest Well by Dr. Nadine Burke

• Healing Resistance by Kazu Haga

• Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

• The Politics of Trauma: Somatics , Healing, and Social Justice by Staci Haines

• We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health by L.D. Green & Kelechi Ubozoh

• Medicine Stories by Aurora Levins Morales

• What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D Perry

• Wild Indians: Native Perspectives on the Hiawatha Asylum for Insane Indians by Pemina Yellow Bird